Blaise A. Aguirre

Blaise Aguirre, MD, is an expert in child psychiatry, including psychotherapy and psychopharmacology. He has worked extensively with children and their families and is an author and speaker on various aspects of mood, personality, and development in children and adolescents. He is the medical director of 3East at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital, a continuum of care using dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) program for young people manifesting self-endangering behaviors and borderline personality traits. He has been a staff psychiatrist at McLean Hospital since 2000. He is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and lives in Lexington, MA, with his wife and their four children.